Acxotlan (MH621r)

Acxotlan (MH621r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Santa María Acxotlan features a church (serving as a semantic locative) and two acxoyatl trees (fir or laurel). These are tall with many short branches. The result is almost feathery.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Acxoyatl branches were used in penitential offerings, as noted by Frances Karttunen (cited in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Acxotlan .S.tamaria

Gloss Normalization: 

Santa María Acxotlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (visual)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (places)
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spiky
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

branches, ramas, árboles, trees, rituales, rituals, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

acxoya(tl), laurel or fir branches used in penitential offerings, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acxoyatl
-tlan (locative suffix), near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerca de los Acxoyates

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 621r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=324st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

acxoyatl (Chav16)

acxoyatl (CmpRG)

Acxocue (MH632v)